More Xenophobic Bigotry From Donald Trump

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Here is a demonstrable reality that doesn’t want to incorporate an “allegedly” or some other sort of disclaimer: Donald Trump is a xenophobic bigot.

And now that the immigration disaster on the U.S.-Mexico border has develop into a sizzling matter and a factor of main concern to the American populace—albeit, totally on the aspect of the populace that adheres to the white nationalist Nice Alternative Concept, which largely revolves round white conservative paranoia over migrants changing white folks within the U.S.—Trump is ramping up what ought to universally be perceived as anti-migrant hate speech.

Throughout a marketing campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday, Trump stood behind a podium earlier than his loyal viewers of MAGA minions and claimed, with zero proof per ordinary, that “sick” migrants have been coming into the nation and spreading contagious illnesses. He additionally known as migrants who entered the U.S. illegally “animals” and declared that they have been “not human.”

From New Republic:

“Individuals have been sick, we don’t need them coming into our nation with contagious illnesses, and so they have it,” Trump stated, although he actively ignored the onset of the worldwide pandemic, lied to the U.S. public about methods to deal with Covid-19, and thwarted efforts to develop a vaccine. “Abruptly you see these contagious illnesses spreading, and everyone seems to be saying, ‘I’m wondering the place they got here from.’ I can let you know the place they got here from.”

This, after all, isn’t Trump’s first time making this declare that zero notable public well being specialists are consigning. Again within the early levels of his first presidential run—across the time when he was generalizing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who’re “bringing medicine” and “bringing crime” into the U.S.—he baselessly claimed Mexican migrants have been bringing “super infectious illness” to the U.S., and, extra not too long ago, he stated that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, which is about as neo-Nazi-ish as an individual can sound with out simply flat out shouting “Heil Hitler!”

Anyway, through the Michigan rally, Donald Trump additionally took the chance to dehumanize migrants fully primarily based on an anecdotal case during which an American lady was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant.

“A 22-year-old nursing scholar in Georgia was barbarically murdered by an unlawful alien animal,” Trump stated in reference to the violent dying of Laken Riley, a nursing scholar at Augusta College who was discovered useless in a wooded space on the College of Georgia campus in Athens on Feb. 22. Authorities consider she was killed by the aforementioned migrant from Venezuela.

“The Democrats stated please don’t name them animals, they’re people. I stated no, they’re not people, they’re not people, they’re animals. And Nancy Pelosi informed me that. She stated, ‘Please don’t use the phrase animals, sir, whenever you’re speaking about these folks.’ I stated, ‘I’ll use the phrase ‘animal’ as a result of that’s what they’re.’”

Since information of Riley’s dying broke, MAGA conservatives have been exploiting her story to craft a racist narrative that migrants coming into the U.S. from our southern border are inflicting violent crime to spiral uncontrolled as a result of they will’t be bothered to do the naked statistical information that there haven’t been any surges in crimes within the cities most migrants have come to, and that, in lots of these cities, crime charges have fallen.

Thoughts you, all of this contemporary xenophobic propaganda comes not lengthy after Donald Trump likened migrants to Hannibal Lecter and claimed lots of them converse languages so international (as in “from the planet Mars”) that no linguists within the developed world can translate them.

We’re dangerously near electing for the second time a white nationalist bigot who has successfully normalized telling simply debunkable lies and spreading racist bigotry from the political pulpit.

It could be scary if it weren’t so…American.